Seem like it will be a much longer haul than the baby seal we saw being covered in March, which had born yet quite well-developed and whose astounding growth pace made indipendent in just two weeks and an half... Incredible how much of a difference there can be between close "sister clades" (Ursidae and Pinnipedia, in this case), not just in the appearance (bears still being very alike to oversized dogs, seals having traded land mobility for fishlike, fusiform bodies to better exploit underwater habitats), but also in physiology!